X-MEN 97 EPISODE 10 BREAKDOWN! Ending Explained & Easter Eggs You Missed!

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric. Boss and this is a breakdown of X-Men 97. episode 10 the season finale tolerances. Extinction part three I cannot begin to. explain what it has meant to me to see. my point of entry to the Marvel world. come back and grow up with me and bring. in so many other corners of the Marvel. world including Daredevil Iron Man Black. Panther Wanda and Quicksilver Mr. Fantastic Doctor Strange Peter Parker. and MJ Cloak and Dagger apocalypse. possibly resurrecting Gambit as his. Horseman death even psylock and Puck and.

you thought psylock was the only one who. shows skin Puck is like screw that Suns. out guns out and Sky out thighs out and. thank all of you so much for joining me. on this journey waiting an extra day for. breakdowns I'll always remember it but. I'm so glad I did spend some extra time. with this finale because it did some. amazing things with the character of. Magneto that you really need a full day. to just sit with and fully realize. because it explains why apocalypse. sorted the X-Men the way he did as we go. through this breakdown I invite you to.

think of this episode in terms of. Charles and Eric's shared shame the. power of water and Reflections and by. the way to celebrate this amazing season. of X-Men 97 and to recognize Magneto's. good points head on over to nerd Riot. Dodge shop and support us by grabbing. one of these Magneto was right shirts. and this whole theme of Magneto begins. even in the opening seconds previously. on X-Men yes that is the voice of. Magneto this finale is truly Magneto's. Journey as he ultimately goes previously.

on mutant kind back when the Old. Testament didn't need a new testament it. was just Testament then onto the X-Men. intro which we never skip because we can. only truly enjoy these X-Men episodes. after we've properly rocked out to Ron. waserman theme music and I can't believe. I've overlooked this all season long the. opening frames of this they updated the. outer space shot from the 9s run so that. it's not earth beside two other bodies. it is just Earth with our moon but they. reined the moon to accentuate the blue. area of the Moon which is explored in.

the season 3 Phoenix Saga Arc and gets. Revisited in this episode and then of. the insert shots in this opening. sequence the shot of cable with. apocalypse from season 4 episode 18. Beyond Good and Evil part one now. carries greater weight as in saoner and. apocalypse reemerged this episode but. there's this new shot of Charles and. Magneto in white lab coats using their. powers on these armed militants this is. from season 1 episode 3 inter Magneto. when Charles recalls his past with. Magnus in the 60s working for a hospital. in the unnamed country where Magnus was. orphaned by War back in 1992 animated.

series were unable to reference the. Nazis or the Holocaust but this season. has been more overt about it and they do. some clever things in this opening scene. that kind of bridges the two but also in. the opening sequence as I pointed out. last week the fleeing humans between. Magneto's mutants and Charles's X-Men. have now been turned into pink skinned. Prime Sentinels including that P. letterman jacket guy with the flat top. and the goatee a character design that. gets reused everywhere and I think it. actually might be bo deo's rendering of. his high school self and yes Bo Deo was. fired before the season began and we.

still do not know why so I'm not going. to rush to defend this guy until I know. why he was fired I'm sure whatever he. did you can just blame it on the basan. goo okay we open with the birds 1965. turn turn turn written by Pete Seager. 1959 with lyrics taken almost verbatim. for the Book of Ecclesiastes to. everything there is a season and a time. to every purpose under Heaven a time to. be born and a time to die a time to. plant and a time to pluck up that which. is planted A Time to Kill and a time to. heal a time to break down and a time to. build up and it goes on Pete seager's.

additions for the song include the. phrase turn turn turn and the closing. line of the song A Time For Peace I. swear it's not too late so this is an. Old Testament verse often interpreted as. a plea for the balance in life typical. of King Solomon's wisdom a suggestion. that God knowingly designed the world. with all things good and bad and it's. all part of a cycle but Pete Seager. changes that into a hopeful call to. transcend the forever Wars of the 60s. similarly Charles swears it's not too. late for magnets to ReDiscover that time. for peace but this episode will.

ultimately swing back to the time to Die. the time to kill and the time to break. down also interesting to note that in. 1999 Seager arranged for 45% of the. songwriting royalties for this song to. be donated to the Israeli Committee. Against house demolitions which opposes. the demolishing of Palestinian homes in. the occupied territories which probably. includes whatever royalties Disney paid. to sample it in this episode Magneto and. Charles are in that bar that Magneto. brought up a few times this season where. they first shared their dream as young. younger men since this scene begins with.

them unaware of each other's mutations. this would be set before that flashback. in season 1 episode 3 inter Magneto I. think this war torn area is East Germany. because even by 1965 the soviet-backed. East German government did very little. to repair the damage from World War II. and parts of the country were seeing. heavy military presence I was wondering. in Austria because on the wall behind. them is a photo of a bodybuilder who. could be an 18-year-old Austrian born. Arnold Schwarzenegger when he won the. 1965 Junior Mr Europe then again Arnold. also would been popular in East Germany.

at the time too also another photo on. that wall shows a man with a wide. brimmed hat which I was wondering might. be Charles from uncanny xman 321 when he. rocks an Indiana Jones type hat when. he's in Israel in the past and the woman. beside him in that photo could be the. Israeli Holocaust Survivor Gabriel. holler mother to David holler AKA Legion. Charles and Eric talk about the. hypothetical of maybe being a mutant. it's clearly an analogy for being queer. the way the early Fox films use mutant. kind as a metaphor for gay rights I love. this scene so much for how delicate they.

handle the conversation like notice. Charles says and if indeed mutants exist. they. don't if they exist and then Eric. quickly Cuts them off by saying they. don't right as some clunky metal tanks. Roll by and the ice shakes in his drink. this guy clearly still triggered from. tanks as a kid targeting him for being. different but Charles takes the Bold. step of telepathically revealing himself. to Magneto and it definitely plays like. two men coming out to each other very. vulnerable moment because notice this.

specific gesture have you met. others the animation Direction here is. so good because this is like two men who. just came out to each other asking if. they've ever been with anyone else and. one of them just kind of gives a little. like it's these little moments that just. make X-Men 97 so good but we learned. this is actually a reconstructed memory. by Charles to manipulate magnus's mind. magnus's hair regrows long and the. outside Street turns into a stormy sea. with a boat that Charles clearly there. later revealed to be holding Magneto's.

loved ones just Out Of Reach Charles. threatens to force his way in and. Magneto warns such psychic penetration. risks leaving both our minds shattered. so our prediction last week that. Onslaught would arrive in this episode. does not seem to have physically. materialized but onslot initial arrival. is not a physical materialization the. fact that Charles goes through with this. suggest that the darkness in both of. them could have broken in a certain way. to plant that seed for season 2 noticed.

specifically the way Charles unleashes. his cionic energy into magnus's mind. looks like the exact moment following. Magneto pulling out Wolverine adamantium. in the fatal attractions run that was. later confirmed to be the moment that. Onslaught spawned so Charles uses. Magneto to restore Earth's Electro. magnetism and it's Cameo Galore we start. with Silver Samurai in Tokyo as the city. lights back up and then onto the White. House where Captain America Steve Rogers. and Iron Man Tony Stark stand beside. president Robert Kelly so this. particular Iron Man armor is the design. from the 1994 Iron Man animated series.

this is the one with the really. unnecessary 3D portion of the suitup. sequence and this is stupid but to the. right of President Kelly the guy's. Placer just reads Senator then in New. York looters are clothline by Daredevil. the devil of Hell's Kitchen this suit. design looks like it's from the 1999. unproduced Daredevil animated series. that was pitched to Fox kids by Marvel. but reportedly Marvel halted production. because they were developing the film. that would later star Ben Affleck then. in a hospital the backup generators kick. back on while Doctor Strange uses. spells to perform open heart surgery and.

beforehand noticed he had been using. floating candles since Doctor Strange. began as a surgeon it's just nice to see. that when the blackout began that's how. he decided he could be the most useful. but also noticed that he's using magic. to maneuver the scalpel so I wonder if. this version never got his hands fixed. and just because there is someone behind. him I wonder if that might be Christine. Palmer so Bastion relishes and Charles. reactivating his primes a dream as. crippled as its dreamer built to die. it's worth noting that all living things.

are in a way born with an expiration. date it's really What Gives Life Meaning. but Bashan doesn't understand the. meaning of that because he is mostly. machine and he says all this while Jean. is sinking into that pond reminding us. of her moment with Wolverine in the pond. earlier this season by the x- mansion. and it just aligns with bastion's. inspired description of mutant kind. buggy stillborns flapping up stream. draining yourselves dry so that the tide. can more easily drown you so Bastian is.

suggesting that these mutants are poorly. designed and destined to drown but. ironically Jean is using her aquatic. submersion to reactivate the Phoenix all. while Charles is begging Eric to let. that tide take him in and cleanse him. with spiritual renewal Bastion just. doesn't get how tides work because you. know he like talks to pencil sharpeners. when Bastion chokes storm I love how. Forge growls Get Your Filthy paws off. her definitely giving Vibes of Charlton. hon in the 1968 plan of the Apes take. your stinking paws off you damn dirty.

ape which I really only bring up because. both of these conflicts come down to. which sentient race represents the. rightful evolutionary order of. succession the primes crash into the. White House as Bastion plans to do what. Master Mold began to do in season 1. episode 13 the final decision to replace. the brains of world leaders with robot. brains we see these things going to. wakanda Smashing in at Black Panther. who's flanked by the dormal the Black. Panther that we saw in the '90s run in. the sanctuary arc when asteroid M. shuttles depart from Africa was also. caped like this and we see this black. panther later it's not tala but his.

father King tachaka notice how they. added some gray hair to his temples I. assume this might be because Marvel. animation was able to get Chadwick bosan. for the animated version of tchala in. the wh if episodes of season 1 and maybe. they didn't want to bring someone else. in to voice the role B Deo did say that. he couldn't speak to the tachaka versus. tchala decision so I assume this came. for Marvel exec back in New York we see. Josie's bar the bar frequented by Matt. Murdoch and foggy Nelson Daredevil gets. hit from the side and notice on the. ground are some broken pieces of glass. that look looks like a dagger and this.

precedes the arrival of Cloak and Dagger. to help Daredevil Tai teleports them in. with his cloak and Tandy creates a. dagger of light these two did appear in. the 2012 Ultimate Spider-Man voiced by. Phil Lamar and Ashley Xin as well as of. course their live action 2018 series on. free form starring Aubrey Joseph and. Olivia Holt meanwhile the Russian. president gets protected by a Russian. lineup of superheroes Omega Red Crimson. Dynamo and Darkstar so Darkstar joined. Omega Red in the season 2 episode 4 Red. Dawn episode episode in the MCU they.

took elements of Crimson Dynamo and. merged them with Whiplash to get Mickey. R's take on Ivan Veno for Iron Man 2. meanwhile on josia we see psylock the. real psylock not morph turning into. psylock as well as members of the. Canadian superhero Team Alpha flight we. see the twins North Star in Aurora and. remember we saw Aurora briefly at Remy's. funeral and we still haven't really. gotten an explanation of what their. history was and then there's also Puck. as well as Cecilia Reyes meanwhile. Bastion asks cable how many times did. you fail to stop me hm.

200 200 times so last week Bodo tweeted. that we should watch the Star Trek next. Generation episode causeing effect to. prepare for this finale cause and effect. Ends by revealing Captain Morgan baton. Kelsey gramar of the USS Boseman had. been caught in a temporal anomally Loop. for 80 years and I think that's the idea. with cable here he's just been in dozens. of loops with a certain knowledge that. we didn't even realize along with. Patrick Stewart and Kelsey gramar. obviously joining the Xin film franchise. there are a few other reasons why both. Deo told us to watch this episode I'll.

get to those later but yeah let's talk. about that 200 Loops cable we don't know. how far cable got on each of his Loops. like imagine we're just watching like. the final Loop of the Tom Cruz movie. Edge of Tomorrow like Some Loops he made. it all the way to London Some Loops he. just like died in the first minutes I. presume that most of Cable's Loops were. just to the night of josha and then he. just got temporarily pulled back because. it was an absolute point but knowing. that he went through 200 Loops suggests. that maybe there were Loops where he. made it further like all of his. interactions with Cyclops and Jee that.

we saw in the second half of the Season. he might have already looped through. those conversations in the past like. that could be why he always growled at. Cyclops to just skip the Father's son. small talk because he's bored with it. he's already had that conversation so. Bastion says this interesting line Jean. Gray meline prior never Phoenix just. dead I'm not sure but it seems like they. might be saying meline prior was never. Phoenix which would mean that Sinister. must have swapped Jee and meline. sometime after the Phoenix Saga and the. dark Phoenix stuff in season 3 either. way I think it happened more recent than.

we think because it would be crazy to. say that the entire time of the five. seasons of the '90s run it was all. Madeline that whole time thank you to. better help for sponsoring this video. it's spring and while for a lot of us. that means doing a deep cleaning of our. apartment there's no reason you can't do. the same thing with your brain whether. you're looking to begin or continue your. journey with mental health better help. can help you connect to a therapist. who's right for you better help makes. starting therapy easier and less. intimidating for a lot of people first. use our link to go to their site better. help.

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cable accepts her as his mother so. Phoenix empowered Gene reassembles the. Demonic Scrambler uses it to reverse the. nanotech virus for all the Primes during. this Montage there's a wondrous choir. vocal cover of Ron westerman's. [Music]. theme I love how Jean dreams Sinister of. all his mutant DNA they used to duct. tape himself together and keep himself. young over the years we saw the. beginning of this process in the s. Minister origin episode season 5 episode.

9 The Descent when Nathaniel Essex. experimented on mutants who looked odd. who would end up getting freed and were. implied to become the morlocks and that. episode featured Jean's ancestor Rebecca. gray so this might just be a history. that Jean was able to understand through. her own ancestry and Jean says the. Phoenix Burns away the obsolete the. underbrush of our fears and insecurities. and like an idiana Jones villains. Sinister rapidly ages into the 150. something year old Victorian araman look. like whiskers and liver spots on his.

head even the pond water at his ankles. is like yuck and ripples away because. Sinister is too shook for this water to. calmly reflect his appearance so of. course he just runs over to the nearest. metamorph and is like be a mirror for me. show me show me my. face looks the same to. me oh morph you're so mean but like. Sinister totally deserved this and then. Sinister just like runs away like on. foot he's on an island where is he going.

to go is he going to rent a boat so. Bastion rips off Cable's arm and then. smacks him with it and then squeezes it. so hard that it pops open into these. gross squid-like tendrils it's such an. insane visual reminding us that part of. Cable's very Anatomy came from that. original techno organic virus he forms. this new armored appearance with wings. that actually comes from the second. coming story arc where he's actually. infected with the Techno organic virus. these Tech wings actually were inspired. by Archangel in the comics bastion's. plan now is to hurl asteroids M back. down to earth and Grant the planet a.

quick Extinction which is essentially. what Ultron planned to do with sovia in. Avengers Age of Ultron Cyclops tells a. recovering Wolverine don't you dare. break her heart be the best of what you. do heal I love that Scott acknowledges. how much Logan means to Jean and. Comforts Logan by reminding him that it. wasn't the adamantium that made him. special it was this healing ability and. by using these exact words it's a play. on Logan's catchphrase I'm the best at. what I do and what I do isn't very nice. Charles join Scott and Jean's telepathic.

link to explain that he must restore. Magneto's shattered psyche even if that. means risking losing himself in that. subconscious yeah I definitely feel like. we're going to circle back on this. moment whenever Onslaught arrives and if. you listen closely to the music in this. scene the Newton Brothers mixed in the. Classic X-Men music from the '90s run. from this kind of scene so Jee links. with everyone on asteroid M to warn them. he's more than flesh or metal Bastion is. the future incarnate so thematically by. facing Bastion the X-Men are fighting an. entire represent presentation of their. future and how humanity is destined to.

be supplanted by AI which is interesting. because at the end of this episode. apocalypse represents a Timeless threat. that originated in the distant past. meanwhile Rogue tells Roberto odds may. be bad but the cards are always in the. X-Men's favor yes reminding us of Gambit. whose Queen of Hearts returns in the. post-edit scene so the first one to. confront Bastion when he reaches the. core is Rogue and she gives him the. business his name was Gambit remember it.

the animation on the business end of. Rogue is a freaking Feast her fist. smushes bastion's cybernetic cheek Rogue. does the Mana steel callow versus Zod. speed punching ramming him through the. debris her eyes emit some teardrops but. she turns away from them which is. another visual example of mutants in the. tidal waters but this mutant is turning. the tide Rogue throws Bastion and she. shifts her weight from one side to the. other and leaps up after him and yeah.

animators we see what you did there. Rogue throws Bastion Into the Blue area. of the Moon again seen in the season 3. Phoenix Saga it does have breathable air. and has been home to U The Watcher so. that's why Sunspot and Rogue are able to. breathe in this section and I love how. Rogue raises bastion's head just enough. to put it in place so that she can. him in the face with a thunder clap it. dislodges his jaw Bastion flies her up. out of the blue areas breathable. atmosphere but Sunspot comes into help. and I just love the shot where he's. framed in his fiery glow as the the. Sun's light appears from behind the.

Earth meanwhile President Kelly talks. with other world leaders including. tachaka of wakanda and it looks like at. the upper right that might be Nelson. Mandela because this is 1997 and Nelson. Mandela served as president of South. Africa from 1994 to 1999 however the. Russian president was not Boris yelton. so I you know they're just kind of. picking and choosing but that's okay. President Kelly reads Magneto's dossier. in the Magneto protocol folder which. lists his real name as Magnus AKA Eric. lyncher AKA David hemlin the late actor. who voiced him in the original '90s. animated series as well as Ian redacted.

and Michael redacted of course nods to. Ian McKellen and Michael Fender it also. lists his affiliations as Brotherhood of. mutants acolytes and X-Men and marital. status as widowed and his children. Quicksilver son Scarlet Witch daughter. and P something redacted referring to. Polaris AKA Lorna danne who also shows. up on the boat with these two a little. bit later the deceased wife I think. might be Magda eisenhart who would be. Wanda and Petra's mother at this point. before retcons ended up changing all of. that and while height 62 and weight 190.

lbs match what is on Magneto's various. trading cards the power ratings of. strength intelligence speed fight. stamina and Agility do not match at all. but I love that they added energy level. and Global danger and Global danger is. off the charts and then when Kelly flips. the page there is a yellow sticky note. with the word codes taped over what. looks like a nuclear missile so are. those the nuclear launch codes just. casually written on a sticky note Jesus. so Charles tells Magneto and while the. tide of our past can drag us under it. also Carri carries us to others who are.

fighting their own current I love this. idea this whole concept of all of us. linked on a shared current those Waters. that carry us is spiritually significant. to stories like black panther remember. the idea of kilmonger wanting to be. buried in the ocean with his ancestors. who knew that death was better than. bondage which I maintain is like the. best line to date in the MCU but we. learn in Black Panther Wana of forever. that water can also be a healing Force. as it was for shuri and for what it's. worth Deo did confirm this connection so. out on the boat that Charles placed. there we see Rogue as well as Polaris.

Quicks and our mother Wanda Maxim off. the Scarlet Witch notice how Magneto's. children's faces are in Shadow which. aligns with his inability to see his. parents' faces my family my. parents I can't see. them where are their faces remember when. Magneto flashed back to its origin in. the Holocaust in the remember it episode. we did not see the faces of his parents. beside him we are also reminded of. Jean's inability to see the faces when. her memory was scanned Back In the.

fireade Flesh episode it's just a tragic. thing that happens as we grow older and. we start to lose people in our lives. their very faces begin to fade from our. minds but specifically for Magneto It's. really because as a kid he was not. looking Upward at his parents in that. moment he could not help but look. downward at the boots of the soldiers. that took. them Father those men the boots they. took them yes Magneto says the German. words for mother and father but. transitions into English when he gets. angrier meanwhile back on asteroid M. Nightcrawler bamps Bastion into the main.

hall but for a moment we're very worried. that Nightcrawler might accidentally. bamp with bastion's arm through his. chest but Cyclops hits Bastion with a. full optic blast it's so satisfying to. see a true Cyclops battle here juble. hits Bastion with some plasmoids and. crashes a sentinel head on him and now. when Bastion sits up his wrecked face. looks so gnarly for a few frames like. the eye is hanging out and then we just. see the Machinery in a few frames jigsa. some crude version of it back in in. place he's like the T800 refusing to die.

including when a sentinel Stomps on him. this is the one that forg and Beast had. hotwired the Greeks did love horses and. irony yes an obvious nod by Beast to. Odysseus and the Trojan Horse Jean storm. and morph fly down and notice how morph. morphs into soron Dr Carl Leos from The. Savage land really just to make this two. second flight across the room like they. could have picked anyone who could fly. or land softly and morph is like eh I. haven't done soron yet so why not bash. sh raises the Sentinel foot and cyclops.

recognizes that it's time to stop. fighting the future your mother. lied the professor came to you Bastion. if he did it was to protect me parents. are human too they mess up Cyclops says. he knows how it feels to have the things. he trusted the future he was building. crashed down on him and to refuse to let. go even as you're buried by what should. have been and during this we get this. great shot of bastion's eyeball. reflected in Scott's eye piece but. notice how it doesn't last because.

Humanity proves Scott's hope wrong the. Magneto protocol has arrived Bastion. said that humans would rather die than. have babies like them and bason would. rather die than live in a world where. the X-Men were right asteroid in blows. up and begins to crash down to earth. morph morph s to read Richards Mr. Fantastic for a second to keep from. being sucked out Jubilee does get sucked. out and goes into open space but I guess. deos said that they're in the uper. atmosphere so there's like some air and. even though it's cold sunspots warmth. would have warmed her whatever it's a. cartoon we got to let it go Scott.

prepares to stay behind and blast apart. this asteroid but not wanting to make. the mistake that Corsair made and not. say goodbye to his son Scott has Jean. project both of them into cable who. recovers in the diner I love the scene. so much as Cyclops and Jee talk to their. son Cyclops is reflected in the glass. and the diner window even though he is. an astral projection he might just be in. Cable's mind but no they want him. physically in that booth and I love the. visual motif of this episode where true. mutant Heroes Have Reflections whereas. the vampiric opportunist like Sinister. or Bastion whenever they're starting to.

be reflected their Reflections are. shortlived and vanish it's because they. don't have souls characters who have. souls have Reflections Cyclops says that. meline told him that baby Nathan had his. eyes and Jean warps his irises so that. Nathan can see his father's eyes as they. are his own eyes reflected back to him. Jean does know what Scott's eyes look. like from the season 1 episode 5 captive. Hearts where he was able to do this. because they were in the vicinity of. leech Scott says that his eyes belong to. Cable now it's just so sweet that this. entire conversation is rendered in this. blue glow because that would be the.

truest form of familial love that cable. would have ever felt because it is the. color of the memory that madlin left in. Nathan's mind when he was a baby and as. Scott tells Jean that it's time to go. they turn back to cable and they fade. away but the last part of Cyclops that. Fades away are the tears welling up in. his eyes those are the tears that are. still in cyclops's eyes back on asteroid. M as he rips off his eyepiece and just. lets his optic blast go crazy meanwhile. a couple of guys on Earth listen to this. bad news on the car radio radio station. number.

19966 which might be for June 1996 which. is when the character of onslaught was. introduced hm but then the craziest shot. of this episode looking through this. broken storefront of crazy Eddies is. Peter Parker and MJ it is a huge deal. that Peter found MJ because the 90s. Spider-Man animated series ended with. Peter realizing that he had been with a. clone of MJ and that clone died and then. Peter joins Madame Webb to go look for. the real MJ the MJ who wouldn't know. that he's Spider-Man this is a huge. Cliffhanger it's so satisfying to see it.

resolved here it kind of gave Madame we. a bit of redemption after she's had a. rough 2024 also passing Peter's left. shoulder could be Felicia Hardy black. cat but entering frame from the right. side is Flash Thompson wearing an e. letterman jacket which would be for. Empire State University also I love that. the cracks and the window glass here. form a spiderweb pattern so morph morphs. into. Jean she can't say it but I. can I love you Logan Stay With Me this. is so beautiful because remember back in.

episode 1 morph haunted Logan by turning. into a pregnant meline but we know morph. has always had their own feelings for. Logan we've seen little details of that. throughout the season and in this way. morph is able to express themselves. truly to Logan and as night crawler. prays over them Charles and Magnus have. this moment inside of their minds. there's a power in seeing yourself in. another ah by forcing Magnus to look him. in the eyes Charles helps Magnus realize. the power of found family and restores. his psyche through their shared dream. your name is professor Charles Xavier.

and you are Eric Magnus lencher I love. how on each of his names Eric Magnus. lencher magnus's eyes grow wider but was. this just another example of Charles. just giving a really good speech that. changed everything or is there something. else at play here I'll get to why later. but Magneto finally awakens Magneto. lives he reverses the polarity of. asteroid M raising it up back toward the. moon but then whoa zap it vanishes the. whole thing is gone in a blip like the.

island and lost in the season 4 finale. when it becomes unstuck in time because. that is what happened to this asteroid. we jumped 6 months later where the news. broadcasts refer to this event as e day. so I assume e is for extinction as how. near of an Extinction event this was the. fact that Human Society remembers it as. a near Extinction event tells us what. Society thinks about mutants this moment. the expansion gates are covered in. tributes to the absent X-Men with a. large chain X padlocked over the bars we. also learned that great Creed has edged. ahead in the presidential race polls.

Gren Creed is a presidential candidate. from the operation Zero Tolerance. storyline in the comics who ties into. bastion's Political conspiracy plot to. turn Society against mutants I assume. we'll see more of this in season two the. radio also mentions protesters in Santo. Marco preaching the second coming of. Magneto Santo Marco is a fictional South. American Republic introduced in Xmen. number four in 1964 which at various. points was taken over by Magneto's. Brotherhood of evil mutants so we see. Forge assembling this board of the. missing mutants the top row has Cyclops. missing presumed dead Jee missing. presumed dead storm missing presumed. dead Beast missing presumed dead Magneto.

missing presumed dead Nightcrawler. missing presume dead Jubilee awal which. is interesting and Sunspot awall. interesting then the middle row Charles. missing presumed dead Scarlet Witch. offworld very interesting Colossus morph. missing presumed dead Rogue missing. presumed dead dust Archangel missing. presumed dead and I'm assuming he's been. missing and presumed dead for a. different reason than this final battle. but who knows he could also be displaced. In Time by apocalypse to turn him into. one of his like he does in comics and. then magic and then the bottom row.

Wolverine missing presumed dead Iceman. Havoc cable awall Exodus Quicksilver. offworld presumably with his sister and. then Kitty pride and Emma Frost so Forge. Colossus dust magic Iceman Havoc Exodus. Kitty pride and Emma Frost are all still. alive on world and at least available in. case Forge is assembling some xfactor. lineup so where did Jubilee and Sunspot. go well they're kids they don't want to. have to keep fighting in these wars. especially now when their leader would. be forged someone that they don't really. know that well but where are Wolverine.

storm and morph because they are missing. presumed dead but we don't see them in. any of the final scenes of this episode. well boo said that they are in one of. the two timelines which I think means. they're either in 3,000 BC or in 3960 ad. and when someone gets 39680 Deo tweeted. no prize so no prize is something Deo. says a lot in these responses and it's. really a reference to Marvel Comics fan. letters where you'd get something. correct and then they would say no prize. to confirm that you should not expect a. prize for your correc dancer so this. confirms that Wolverine morph and storm.

are somewhere else in the background of. 3960 ad we just don't see them but. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver being. offworld is probably the most. interesting because Forge didn't label. them as missing he knows they are. offworld I think wand and Petro might be. on the moon because quicksilver in the. comics briefly marries the inhuman. Crystal and their wedding is held in the. inhuman city of atalon and maybe Wanda. is using this wedding trip to search for. their father some kind of clues or. remnants in the blue area of the moon so. Bishop finally returns hinting that he. and Forge are friends in the future and.

the X-Men are just lost in time but it's. less a question about where and more. when and hey look at that another. example of a good guy mutant with a. visible soul in his reflection so the. final scenes of the episode intercut. between two points in history 3,000 BC. in ancient Egypt showing Rogue. Nightcrawler Beast Charles and Magneto. and then in the future year of 3960 ad. cyclops in Gene and again according to. Deo Wolverine storm and morph if you. look at Gan and Scott's background. Egyptian Pyramids continue to stand and.

Young Nathan comes out of ruins with. Egyptian hieroglyphs so here in 3960 ad. they are geographically in Egypt just in. the aftermath of some future war in a. climate in which snow or maybe it's just. dust Billows over the North African. desert I think taking them to the. stomping grounds of inab was intentional. by apocalypse like he wanted to split up. the X-Men to his past and to his future. ultimately I think on a Horsemen. recruitment Mission Cyclops and Jee meet. Cable's Rebel friends from the future. and they are crazy you're a long way.

from Crest Coast Sapien cast you may. call me mother. esani leader of Clan ascan so ascani is. Rachel Summers Scott and Jean's daughter. we saw a version of asani reassembling. the goldgate bridge and cable story The. Future back in episode 8 and then they. meet young Nathan recognizing him from. his eyes so this is where baby Nathan. ended up alone where he grew up after. Bishop brought him into the future and. Bishop got sucked away probably by. apocalypse so how is aan still alive has. she reached some form of immortality has. she been alive for 4,000 years I think.

the idea here is that Scott and Jee. might have conceived her at some other. point in the future before this I mean. hey maybe all of these Rebels are just. time displaced loners from various. points in history who just kind of Crash. landed here and she says things like. Crest Coast Sapien cast it kind of. sounds like some Cloud Atlas true true. speak right but it suggests a change. Topography of the country and then. Sapien cast suggests a cast system of. humans and mutants where people who look. and talk like Scott and Jean are now. considered either lower or maybe even a. higher social class mother ascani is.

voiced by Gates mcfaden who played Dr. Crusher in Star Trek the Next Generation. which is another reason Deo told us to. watch that cause and effect episode. meanwhile the other group in 3,000 BC in. ancient Egypt meets this guy my name is. n. [Music]. sabanur oh dear so inan Nur is the. original name for apocalypse apocalypse. originated in ancient Egypt inan Nur a. nomadic Warrior the first known mutant.

on Earth with pale gray skin and the. blue lines on his face Marvel Comics. writers chose the name in saoner. intending it to translate to the seven. lights but we're not sure if the. translation is accurate The Uncanny. exforce Comics explore how he was. recruited by the celestials to be a. guardian to ensure Evolution takes his. natural course so they enhance his body. with Celestial technology over time he. took on the name apocalypse and was. worshiped as a god going in and out of. states of hibernation as he seeks new. Mutant host bodies throughout history. always recruiting Four Horsemen as his. stri Force it's implied by the X-Men. Comics that he was actually the Old.

Testament God who is described in. religious texts he of course was played. by Oscar Isaac in 2016's X-Men. apocalypse but now he's voiced by AI. tokumbo McCormick who played Mr ekko's. brother Yi on lost and notice how they. mixed in an audio effect really a. subtler form of the Distortion that they. gave to John KOST and James blendick who. voiced the character throughout the '. 90s run so apocalypse showed up. throughout that series as part of the. Cure storyline initially in season 1. episode 9 when he was commanding de in. season 1 trying to orchestrate the. assassination of Robert Kelly and then.

from there became much more of a. timeline villain like in the season 2. time fugitives Arc he was then absent. throughout season 3 and then reappeared. to take Fabian Cortez at the very end of. the season 4 Sanctuary Arc and then. shows back up in the Beyond good evil. time travel story the end of season 4. and then lastly in season 5 episode 5. the fifth Horsemen which followed up. with Fabian Cortez as apocalypse's. vessel so that massive golden dome in. the distance looks like it could be. Celestial technology what was used in. the ancient world world to guide the. construction of the pyramids perhaps now.

remember IM Morse AKA Kang exists in the. X-Men animated series continuity in the. Nexus of time in season 2 of Xmen 997 we. could see a sighting of the Kang variant. phoh ramut in this period of History so. onto the post-credit scene the present. day ruins of josha apocalypse's more. familiar form retrieves Something From. the Ashes so much pain my. children so Much Death he recovers. Gambit's queen of Hearts which is. another nod to the cause and effect Star. Trek episode because data flipped over.

two queens for Dr Crusher one of them. being the Queen of Hearts which is what. contributed to her Deja Vu that they. were indeed in a Time Loop but obviously. the takeaway here is that apocalypse as. he does in the 2006 blood of Apocalypse. Arc is recruiting Gambit to be one of. his four horsemen the horsemen that. represents death this was foreshadowed. back in episode 7 when a giant form of. Gambit appeared to Charles in the astral. plane and turn into a skeleton so if. Gambit his death that would leave three. other horsemen War famine and pestilence. so what is apocalypse doing I don't. think apocalypse had anything to do with.

Bastion or really all the evil of this. season I think it completely disagrees. with what Bastion was trying to do but. apocalypse was the one who knocked. Bishop off course probably to Ferry. Nathan Summers into the future to set. cable on that trajectory apocalypse I. believe is the one who unstuck asteroid. M from time and took most of the X-Men. to 3,000 BC which would be his origin. point because we are going to see the. events of rise of Apocalypse meanwhile. he took Jean and Scott to 3960 ad I. think really what he's trying to do is. recruit recruit Horsemen from different. points in time he might have sent Scott.

and jeene to the Future because he. encountered cable before and he just. kind of needs them to be part of that. history but if Gambit is death maybe. apocalypse wants Magneto for war storm. for famine and Gan gray for pestilence. I'm thinking he's targeting Omega Level. mutants and notice how much this season. wanted us to think of storm and Jee and. magnino as Omega Level why because. apocalypse is all about that letter A he. is the alpha and together with the. omegas they would complete the Alpha and. the Omega and repres a truly Godly Force. apocalypses plan is probably what it.

always is to remake Society by wiping. the Planet Clean of humans and mutants. whom he believes are not fit to survive. he can use the suffering they. experienced under bastion's plan and. Gren Creed's upcoming plan to really. make his point that it might just be. better to start over from a clean slate. so that's why I'm focused so much on. Charles and magnus's easy success at. repairing their psyche like after an. entire season of stressing that Magneto. was right and that Charles is just a. flawed teacher does it really make sense. that Charles's smug confidence was.

enough to win people over with a great. lecture with solid visual aids I think. what really brought these two old. friends together was the cold chaos of. the stormy seas a darkness that will one. day be named Onslaught this episode. began with a call for peace made out of. an Old Testament Bible verse song and. ends with an answer from an Old. Testament God who was there when the Old. Testament was being written apocalypse. could have separated Charles and Magnus. but he kept them together and I think he. knows what was truly just bond between. the two of them so that completes our. coverage for this season of Xmen 97 and.

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